Arizona prisoner set to be executed apologizes, says he won’t seek clemency
Phoenix (AP) – A prisoner of an arizon Planned to be executed next month 30 years ago, he made a statement that apologized for the pain he caused to kill four members of a family in Phoenix homes.
Richard Djerf reiterated that the state would not relax from the Clemency board in a handwritten note published on Thursday. “If I couldn’t find a reason to save my life, it would be the reason for someone else?” He wrote. “I hope my death brings some peace.”
The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, seeking Djerf’s execution order, refused to comment on the statement.
55 -year -old Djerf, Albert Luna Sr., his wife Patricia and his 18 -year -old daughter Rochelle and 5 -year -old son Damien was found guilty of four murders in the murders on 14 September 1993. A judge later condemned Djerf to his death.
Djerf’s execution of fatal injection is planned on October 17th. Arizona will be the second use of the death penalty this year.
Prosecutors, Djerf’in another Luna Family Member Albert Luna Jr.’ı, previously accused of the theft of home electronic goods in his apartment, and months later, allegedly surrendered flowers, he said.
Authorities say Djerf had sexually assaulted Rochelle and cut off his throat; Albert defeated Luna SR. with a baseball stick before stabbing and hitting; And before he hit a deadly way, Patricia Luna and Damien tied them to their kitchen chairs.
In a statement published on Thursday, Djerf said that Albert Jr. was an innocent victim who came home to discover what Djerf was doing to his family. Djerf wrote to his family, or why wasn’t he his fault, ”he wrote.
Associated Press could not find contact information for Luna through phone lists, could not examine the case records and could not ask the legal representatives in the court case.
Arizona, who is currently 108 prisoners in Death Row, when he uses the death penalty in mid -March Aaron executed Brian Gunches The murder of Ted Pricice in 2002.
The state also carried out Three executions in 2022 In 2014, an execution was made and after a break of about eight years of time due to difficulties in taking medication for execution. In the execution of the 2014 execution, Joseph Wood was injected for two hours of 15 doses of drug combinations and took him over and over again and breathed hundreds of times before he died.
